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Researcher: 200,000 Windows PCs Vulnerable to PcAnywhere Hijacking
As many as 200,000 systems connected to the Internet could be hijacked by hackers exploiting bugs in Symantec's pcAnywhere, including up to 5,000 running point-of-sale programs that collect consumer credit card data, a researcher said today.
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Juniper Buys Web Security Company for $80 Million
Juniper said this week it has acquired Mykonos Software, a provider of website and web application security software, for $80 million.
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BSA: the World is Not Yet Cloud Friendly
The United States is the fourth friendliest country in the world for global cloud interoperability, according to a new study from the Business Software Alliance. But, the organization said a "patchwork" of laws and regulations around the world is holding back cloud adoption internationally.
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Expert: Microsoft has Itself to Blame in Browser-Privacy Flap
Microsoft is pointing fingers at Google and Facebook for circumventing the privacy mechanism baked into Internet Explorer, but the real problem lies in its own failure to implement the P3P privacy standard well, an expert says.
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FCC Chairman Calls on ISPs to Adopt New Security Measures
Broadband providers should notify subscribers when their computers are infected with malware, Genachowski says
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Air Force Abruptly Scraps IPad Plan for Special Ops
The U.S. Air Force has abruptly cancelled a plan to buy nearly 3,000 iPad 2 tablets, just days after a news site raised questions about including a Russian-developed app for encrypting and reading documents.
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Price of DRAM Plunges to All-Time Low of Around $1
DDR3 DRAM prices will continue to fall and possibly stabilize in the second half, analysts said
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Verizon Users Whacked with Another LTE Outage
Verizon's 4G LTE network has been knocked offline again just two months after its last serious outage.
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4 Reasons We Procrastinate Despite Knowing Better
A deeper understanding of why we brush aside important work even when we know we should tackle it can help us overcome the urge to procrastinate the moment it tempts us.
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Google Doodle Hails Heinrich Hertz, Discoverer of Electronic Heartbeat
Today Google's homepage sports a mesmerizing animated GIF of rolling waves, dolled up in Google's colors, in celebration of the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the German physicist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.
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Apple Store Thief Can't Hold Out for IPhone 5
News reports out of Charlotte, N.C., indicate a "known suspect" swiped 25 iPhones from an Apple Store at Northlake Mall between Dec. 1 and Jan. 11.
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0: Four Things IT Needs to Know
RIM this week rolled out a major software update for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC, with new native e-mail and PIM apps, a number of cool new productivity features and corporate server support that's sure to have significant IT implications. CIO.com's Al Sacco details five things IT managers should know about PlayBook OS 2.0.
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Symantec: Mobile Adoption has Reached Tipping Point
Adoption of mobile devices has reached a tipping point in the workplace, with most businesses in a recent Symantec survey pondering development of custom applications or already running line-of-business applications on these handheld units.
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MIT Sloan Seeking Innovative CIOs, Startups for May Symposium
The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is seeking nominations for its annual CIO innovations award as well as applications from startups that would like to grab some face time with CIOs at the annual event.
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Kineto's Smart VoIP Goes Head to Head with Google Voice, Skype
About a year ago, Kineto announced a partnership with T-Mobile that brought Wi-Fi calling to the carrier's customers; the agreement meant that customers could use their home Internet connection to make calls. This took some pressure off of T-Mobile's network, and in some cases, it improved call quality for the customers able to utilize the service.
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Ericsson Increases Uplink Capacity for HSPA
More phones will get faster upload speeds thanks to the improvements
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Ranking 24 Nations by Cloud Policy
The Business Software Alliance surveyed 24 countries that comprise lion's share of global information and communication technologies market to identify the most cloud-friendly policy environments. Where does the U.S. rank?
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Box Becomes First Third-Party App on Good's Platform
Good's customers can use a secure mobile version of Box's content-sharing service on iOS devices
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SAP Lays Out Product Direction Post-SuccessFactors Deal
Analyst: SAP's plans reflect competition from the likes of Workday for cloud-based HR software
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Amazon Automates Business Processes with New Cloud Service
Amazon hopes to help remove the complexities of automating processes
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NEC Casio Mobile to Venture Outside Japan with Smartphones: First Stop Thailand
The Japanese mobile firm follows Panasonic in reentering the international market
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Group Files FTC Complaint Against Google for Privacy Changes
The Center for Digital Democracy calls on the FTC to halt the proposed changes scheduled for March 1
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Groups Ask FCC to Block Verizon Spectrum Deals with Cable Providers
The deals would concentrate too much wireless spectrum in the hands of one company, say Public Knowledge and other groups
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Researcher Releases Exploit Code That Can Allegedly Crash PcAnywhere
Exploit code for a denial-of-service vulnerability identified in Symantec's pcAnywhere product, was published on the Internet
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RSA Conference 2012 Sneak Peek: Cloud, Big Data, and Mobile
There are fewer topics stirring bigger buzz among information security professionals than big data, cloud security, and mobile. So it's no surprise that those topics will dominate the discussions this year at the RSA Conference 2012.
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Industry on Cybersecurity Act of 2012: Not So Fast
While the government may be in a rush to get the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 enacted, many in the industry are saying: not so fast.
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Google's New Privacy Policy: How to Stay Off the Grid
If you are concerned about Google tracking you through your search habits, it is pretty straightforward to turn off the feature.
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Google Augmented Reality Glasses Expected By Year-End
The glasses are meant to work like a heads-up-display that analyzes and displays information for the wearer
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Microsoft Complains to the EU About Motorola Mobility
Microsoft alleges that Motorola is abusing its position with regard to essential patents
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BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 OS: Closer, but Still No Cigar
I want to love the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and its new Version 2.0 operating system released yesterday. After all, the PlayBook OS will be the basis of Research in Motion's future BlackBerry smartphones' BlackBerry 10 OS, and it has a clean, simple, inviting design. Also, you can now access your email, calendar, and contacts using native clients without having to bridge via Bluetooth to a BlackBerry smartphone, one of the most inane limits of the original BlackBerry PlayBook OS.
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AT&T Vs. Verizon: LTE Showdown in the Big Apple
Roughly a year after Verizon Wireless established LTE-based 4G mobile phone and data service in New York City, AT&T's rival LTE network is up and running here and in several other cities. Although its average speeds lagged behind Verizon's in my tests, AT&T's 4G LTE service has a lot going for it.
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How IBM Sold Business Analytics by Relying Solely on Partners
Dissatisfied with its midmarket efforts in the $90 billion business analytics hardware, software and services global market, IBM shifted all of its sales efforts for that segment to the channel. Big Blue teamed that commitment with a $14 billion investment in business analytics acquisitions in the last six years.
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Windows Server 8 to Be Storage-Focused OS
With the beta of Windows Server 8 to be released in the next few weeks, Microsoft executives said the next-generation OS is focused squarely on storage.
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UK Gets Its Own Version of English in Windows 8
Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system will have the U.K. version of English as a display language option, to address customers in that country, and some other countries like South Africa, India, Ireland, and Australia that use the version of the language.
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Microsoft Nukes Recent Office for iPad Rumor
Even if Microsoft were developing a Metro-themed Office app for Apple's iPad, it won't be appearing in the next few weeks. That's just crazy talk.
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Netflix partners with Weinsteins, in talks with former HBO president
With the licensing deal between Netflix and Starz ending this month, the streaming video company is looking to both The Weinstein Company and the former head of HBO for more content.
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Qualcomm S4 chip renders Ice Cream Sandwich 'butter smooth'
Newest Snapdragon chip ups the ante on dual-core phones running Android 4.0, crushing Samsung's Galaxy S II on some key benchmarks.
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0: Déjà Vu?
Almost a year after its launch, are the improvements in RIM's tablet OS good enough to fend off the Apple and Amazon juggernauts?
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Buzz Rethinks How the iPhone Handles Contacts
Buzz Contacts for iPhone is the latest offering from savvy apps, makers of the popular alternative calendar app, Agenda. Both apps take built-in iOS apps and offer new interfaces to save users time and sanity. Actually, Buzz takes on three apps at once: Contacts, Phone and Messages. It also uses FaceTime, a feature another popular third-party contacts app doesn't have.
If only Buzz handled the receiving of texts, voicemails and missed calls, you'd never need those other apps again. Instead of p...
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NASA Wants You … to Eat Space Food in Hawaii [VIDEO]
Calling all supertaster space nerds: NASA wants your help to improve the bland food astronauts would have to eat while on a mission to Mars.…
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US to expand broadband spectrum
US Vice-President Joe Biden unveils a report that calls for nearly doubling the US wireless broadband spectrum over 10 years.
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Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G making its way into T-Mobile stores in March for $150
We heard about Samsung's Galaxy S Blaze 4G -- a device that wins second place for longest name behind the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch -- last month at CES, but details were incredibly scarce. Of course, leave it to T-Mobile and Sammy to toss in a few extra nuggets in the lead-up to Mobile World Congress in the midst of so many other product announcements. It turns out that the Blaze 4G will be making its official debut on the carrier sometime near the end of March for $150 on a two-year co...
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Taiwan market: PC shipments decline in 4Q11, says IDC
There were 705,448 desktop and notebook PCs shipped in the Taiwan market during the fourth quarter of 2011, slipping by 17.0% on quarter and by 2.9% on year, according to IDC Taiwan.
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Twitter app, Cut the Rope, SpellTower, SpellCraft School of Magic all updated
We don't usually cover every single update that arrives on the App Store, simply because there are so many apps out there and so many developers working hard all the time. But a number of very popular apps have updated recently, so here's a few big apps with lots of new content to see. The official Twitter app has been updated, specifically the iPhone version. The update allows you to use swipes to gesture around the app, copy and paste the links and text in actual tweets, and many other perform...
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Facebook to release new premium ads next week (leak)
At its first Facebook Marketing Conference (fMC), Facebook will be killing off some of its old premium ads and launching new ones to replace them, according to leaked documents.
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Google’s ‘Terminator specs’ coming this year, says report
A new report suggests Google's augmented reality specs could be in available as early as this year, costing "around the price of current smartphones."
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DRAM firms expected to post narrower losses in 1Q12
With DRAM prices stabilizing and starting to rise, chip suppliers that operated in the red in the fourth quarter of 2011 are expected to see their quarterly losses narrow sequentially in the first quarter of 2012, industry sources believe.
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Why Are Retailers Shutting Their Facebook Stores?
Eager to monetize the large followings they had built on Facebook, many large brands set up shop on the social network for the first time last y…
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Electronic health records now a top priority for many hospitals
Electronic health records are more of a priority, but security still lags behind.
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How One Man Made a Double-Lens Camera Out of LEGO and Old Binoculars
With the breakneck speed at which new DSLRs are released, photography seems to have traded a bit of its soul for the pursuit of ever more megapixels. So, Carl-Frederic Salicath of Norway has taken a step back from the digital revolution and has built his own working retro 120mm-film camera. Here's how. More »
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Google reportedly prepping heads-up display Android eyeglasses for 2012 launch
A new report claims Google is readying Android-based smart glasses with a heads-up display for release later this year.
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Panel price erosion and tablet panel demand impact LCD market dynamics, says DisplaySearch
Two trends are emerging for large-area TFT LCD panel shipments: tablet PC panels are the fastest growing segment for large-area displays, and ongoing panel price erosion is impacting revenues and profitability.
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Smart TVs: Not Such A Smart Idea
A Smart TV is a TV that includes at least a rudimentary OS, access to web and Internet functions, and streaming content. They have been a hot product category at the last two CES shows, and the rumor that Apple is about to launch one is adding fuel to the fire. The Apple rumor is somewhat reliable, since it is partly based on a quote from the Steve Jobs biography where Jobs says of the Smart TV: "I finally cracked it." But having looked closely at the offerings at CES, and comparing them to the...
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Idea Seeks Clarification on License Cancellation
Idea Cellular said it has sought clarification of the Supreme Court's recent decision to cancel 13 of its 22 telecommunications licenses as part of a ruling that revoked 122 mobile telecom licenses.
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Report: LightSquared to Sack Nearly Half Its Workforce
Afteran FCC shutdown of its LTE network plans, the beleaguered wireless firm can'tpay its bills and is about to dish out pink slips, Reuters reports.
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Nvidia, ZTE Intros Tegra 2 + Icera Smartphone
The ZTE Momosa X will be the first mainstream smartphone to feature both Nvidia's Tegra 2 and Icera 450 HSPA+ modem together in 2Q12.
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Apple to build second data center in Oregon
News network KTVZ has confirmed with Apple that the company plans to build another big data center on a 160-acre section of land just outside of Crook County, Oregon. The land that the data center will be built on cost Apple US$5.6 million. Until February 15, the paperwork that solidified the deal was hidden from public eyes, with Apple only being referred to as "Project Maverick." A piece of paper filed earlier this month identified Apple's address as "1 Infinite Loop," and Apple has now confir...
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Megaupload's Dotcom Released on Bail
Kim Dotcom, the founder of website Megaupload.com, has been released on bail in New Zealand as he awaits a decision on whether he will be extradited to the U.S. to face charges including copyright infringement.
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Looking for work, this student built Clear in HTML5 and it isn’t half bad
We recently reviewed the beautifully put together and highly rated productivity app Clear, and an HTML5 version developed by a fan of the service has now surfaced. Its creator, who built...
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Flickr to get slicker in upcoming makeover
Larger photos, less white space, and a redesigned uploading interface are all features of the photo-sharing site's new look.
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Telenor to Transfer Indian Operations to New Entity
Norwegian telecoms operator Telenor said it wants to run its Indian operations through a new company, after its mobile licenses in the country were revoked.
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LG announces L-style Android phones ahead of MWC
LG on Tuesday announced three more Android smartphones ahead of next week’s Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain. The “L-style” series will feature the Optimus L3 (3.2-inch), L5 (4-inch) and L7 (4.3-inch), three smartphones for design-conscious consumers. “Design is consistently the top or second most important factor for customers when choosing a mobile phone,” president and CEO of LG Mobile Dr. Jong-seok Park said. “With smartphones, we sometimes...
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How Brands Are Using Pinterest - And What They Can Do Better
This year's hottest new online service is undoubtedly Pinterest, the "virtual pinboard" website. Once a social site becomes popular with consumers, brands soon follow. In 2011 brands flocked to Google+ when it became the hot new thing. Now, in 2012, brands are beginning to make their way onto Pinterest. In this post we'll look at some examples of how brands are visualizing themselves on Pinterest, along with emerging best practices. The appeal of Pinterest is that it's primarily a visu...
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Twitter updates its iPhone and Android applications
Android or iOS owners should check their respective app stores because Twitter has a fresh, new update for you to download. It’s a modest improvement which includes support for a new, time-saving gesture that lets you swipe a tweet and then reply, retweet, favorite or share it right from your timeline. You can now swipe and view a user’s profile, too. Twitter also added a new privacy safeguard that will alert you when you select “Find Friends.” This little notification is a r...
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Twitter App Updates Bring New Features for iPhone and Android Users
Twitter announced updates to its iPhone and Android apps on Tuesday, re-introducing some well-loved features and adding new improvements as well…
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Google wants you to enter your credit card as part of Gmail signup?
Google is testing a new email signup page where it will ask the user to enter their credit card information to also create a Google Wallet account. Read more...
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Google's HUD glasses expected to go on sale this year
Web giant's much-rumored high-tech glasses that function much like an Android-based smartphone will be available within months, The New York Times reports.
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Google's Mystery HUD Glasses Could Be on Sale By the Holidays
Google Goggles could soon become a set of physical goggles if murmurings from within the company are true. Could this be the death knell for smart phones? More »
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Epson joins fitness market with world's lightest GPS watch
In the world of electronics, the size of a device directly relates to its ability to pull ahead of the competition -- especially when it comes to fitness-tracking gadgets. The latest and greatest in this field has emerged from the most unexpected of places, with Epson, a company known for its printers and projectors, releasing the world's lightest GPS watch. This timepiece, specifically designed for runners, reportedly offers more accurate readings and better battery life (up to 12 hours on one ...
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Social messaging apps cost mobile companies $14 billion
If you used Google Talk, Facebook Chat, imo, or any other data-based social messaging platform on your phone, congratulations. You helps reduce the pockets of mobile providers by nearly $14 billion. That’s the number that analytics group Ovum came up with, saying the rise of instant messaging apps is killing what is one of the [...]
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Olympus says India exec likely had no ties to scandal
TOKYO (Reuters) - An Olympus Corp executive found dead in India in an apparent suicide is likely to have had no link to the Japanese endoscope maker's accounting scandal, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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PlayStation Vita: 15 Games You Can Play at Launch
The PlayStation Vita launches Wednesday with plenty of impressive features, but many may wonder if the system’s launch titles will be worth grab…
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TechCrunch |
Why Mobile Game Devs Should Port To Mac OS -Advice From Cut The Rope’s ZeptoLab
Last week, a Mountain Lion roared "Mac is the next big gaming platform." Apple is bringing Game Center to Mac, it will support cross-platform iPhone vs. Mac play, and the Mac App Store will likely become more prominent. It's time for mobile developers to decide if they'll bring their games to Mac OS, and how they'll port their controls and levels. Otherwise they risk having to claw their way up much more competitive charts.
Tomorrow, after 100 million downloads across platforms, ZeptoLab will ...
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WSJ.com: Technology |
AT&T's Chief Pays for Big Deal's Failure
AT&T's failed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA cost the telecommunications giant $4 billion in assets and cash. It also cost CEO Randall Stephenson.
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Slashdot |
The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal
New submitter egparedes points out a post dissecting webOS and highlighting the things it did right, in the hopes that developers for other mobile operating systems will use them as inspiration. Quoting:
"webOS isn't quite dead yet. It's just being open-sourced, which, when it happens to commercial software, often turns out to be the digital equivalent of being reanimated as a walking corpse in a George Romero movie. ... Of course, it's not assured that this is the end of webOS. Maybe open-sourc...
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LG's 5-Inch Optimus VU Shown Next Week, More
LG will sport a bunch of new phones next week at Mobile World Congress including the 5-inch Optimus Vu and Optimus LTE Tag.
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EVE Online Saw $66M In Revenue Last Year, Mulls IPO
CCP Games, the makers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game EVE Online, says the company brought in $66 million in revenue last year.
The game, a science fictional adventure set in a star cluster dominated by five major civilizations, first launched in 2003, and its subscriber base (currently about 400,000) has grown every year since launch. Revenue has been growing too, at a compound annual growth rate of 53 percent, bringing in total revenue of $300 million over the game's lif...
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SlashGear |
Facebook makes it easier for iOS app integration
Facebook today announced that it has released new functionality that allows native iPhone and iPad applications to get traffic from Facebook. That is, app developers will be able to more easily direct users from the iOS Facebook app to an external website or app. It’s an extension of an initiative Facebook launched in October called [...]
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Microsoft shoots down talk of Office for iPads
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Company denies report of iPad suite
Microsoft has formally denied a report that the company is developing an iOS version of its Office productivity suite. The company said that a report from news site The Daily...
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Mashable! |
Kid Calls Out LeBron James on YouTube Over Dunk Contest No-Show [VIDEO]
LeBron James, you have officially been called out. By a kid. On YouTube.
“Why won’t you play in the dunk contest this year, man?&…
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Engadget |
LG Optimus 3D Max is a slimmer sequel, world's first phone with 3D video editing
We're not sure if the world was anxiously awaiting a follow-up to LG's Optimus 3D (the AT&T Thrill 4G here in the states), but here it is: the LG Optimus 3D Max -- or Optimus 3D Cube, depending on your country. The latter's been announced for Korean carrier SK Telecom, with the former rolling out to Europe later. The Optimus 3D Max is slightly thinner than its predecessor at 9.6mm vs. the Thrill 4G's 11.9mm, with a faster 1.2GHz dual-core CPU and 16GB of storage built-in, confirming most of ...
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Gizmodo |
How No Amount of Cloud Computing Will Kill Off Local Music Storage
It's true, what they say: Our digital lives are moving to the cloud. Whenever we fire up Facebook instead of a local email client, we're taking part in the shift from locally-run software to the networked app world. More »
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SlashGear |
Microsoft Xbox Live inadvertently posts Mass Effect 3 DLC
Mass Effect 3 is no doubt going to go down as one of the biggest games in 2012, but it hasn’t been released quite yet. So you can imagine the surprise of Xbox 360 users when they noticed that a piece of downloadable content was put up on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The DLC pack, [...]
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Boy Genius Report |
Samsung announces the Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy mini 2
Samsung on Tuesday announced two new additions to the company’s Galaxy smartphone line; the Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy mini 2. The Ace 2 features an 800MHz dual-core processor with a 3.8-inch WVGA display. The handset is also equipped with a 5-megapixel rear camera, VGA front facing one, Android 2.3, 4GB of internal storage and a microSD slot. The mini 2 comes with an 800MHz processor and a 3.27-inch HVGA display with a 3-megapixel rear camera, microSD slot and Android 2.3. Both devices also ...
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Engadget |
LG's Optimus Vu shows up on video, flaunts note taking expertise (video)
Another pre-Mobile World Congress tease from LG? Yup, you're looking at it. While the company's technically already spilled the beans on its upcoming Galaxy Note-rival, the Optimus Vu, this occasion marks the first time we've gotten to see the phablet in video form. In the roughly 1,000 frames of animation above, you're treated to closeups of the Vu's 5-inch 1024 x 768 IPS display, its 8-megapixel camera and a brief demo of its screenshot annotation abilities. That's really all there is to it, s...
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AppleInsider |
Apple confirms plans for 'green' data center in Oregon
Apple confirmed on Tuesday plans to build a "green" data center in Prineville, Oregon on a 160-acre plot of land that it purchased for $5.6 million.
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Digital Trends |
Megaupload’s Dotcom released on bail by New Zealand court
A New Zealand court has decided that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is no longer a flight risk and have released him on bail. Meanwhile, it's still not known when the US authorities will file extradition papers, as a March deadline looms.
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VentureBeat |
Twitter updates iPhone and Android apps, releases Kindle Fire app
With one fell swoop, Twitter has confronted privacy concerns, returned missed features to its mobile audience, and opened its information network up to even more tablet-toting folks.
Twitter for iPhone and Android received updates Tuesday. The fixes address previously identified …
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AppleInsider |
Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Enhanced Printing & Scanning
Printing and scanning will be enhanced in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a cleaner user interface with simplified menu bar buttons.
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TechCrunch |
6Scan’s Auto-Updating Website Protection Service Is Launching Today, Starting With WordPress
If you're a big website, you have a range of good options for staying protected from malicious hacks: hardware from enterprise-oriented companies like Cisco or McAfee, your own in-house support, or hosted professional blog services like WordPress VIP (which is what TechCrunch uses). If you're a smaller site out on the open web, you have weaker options -- at least if you want to get auto-updated responses to a wide range of security problems.
Israeli startup 6Scan is out to change that, launchin...
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Mashable! |
The Content Battle Heats Up: Comcast Launches Netflix Competitor
Comcast is hoping to prevent its cable customers from cutting the cord by introducing a new streaming video service.
The service, known as Xfini…
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SlashGear |
Google to have ‘smart glasses’ by end of 2012
You could soon be able to see where your friends and, how much farther you have to go until you reach the building for your job interview, and other important information just by walking around. That may sound like the kind of stuff you can get by taking out your smartphone and opening a couple [...]
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
Megaupload Founder Deemed a Low Flight Risk, Released on Bail
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was granted bail on Wednesday in a New Zealand court after a judge found he is not a flight risk.
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Slashdot |
Why Corporate Cloud Storage Doesn't Add Up
snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia sees few business IT situations that could make good use of full cloud storage services, outside of startups. 'As IT continues in a zigzag path of figuring out what to do with this "cloud" stuff, it seems that some companies are getting ahead of themselves. In particular, the concept of outsourcing storage to a cloud provider puzzles me. I can see some benefits in other cloud services (though I still find the trust aspect difficult to reconcile), but full-o...
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TechCrunch |
Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Released On Bail, Perhaps Never To Be Seen Again
When Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and several others in the organization were arrested in raids a month ago, it was noted by prosecutors that Dotcom's rather wild lifestyle and propensity for spontaneous international travel, combined with his vast wealth, constituted a serious flight risk. He was denied bail at the time, at least until February 22nd, when the US was to turn in its extradition paperwork.
And today in New Zealand, or tomorrow rather, Dotcom was released under a number of condit...
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The most recent news f... |
Microsoft aims to simplify switching language in Windows 8
Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk
Company looks to ease headaches of localised software
Microsoft has revealed that it will allow users to download and install their own languages for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. In a post to the Building Windows 8...
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
Canon PowerShot G12 Advanced Compact Camera, $388
ElectricSam.com is selling the high-end Canon PowerShot G12 camera for only $388, with free shipping.
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ReadWriteWeb |
Daily Wrap: Facebook Profile Suggests Future Job Performance and more
A new study finds it's possible to judge your potential job performance using your Facebook profile. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.
Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Bottleno...
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The Register |
SanDisk daddy: Flash to 'checkmate' hard drives by 2020
Next on the hit list: DRAM
ISSCC Although some industry observers – as The Reg recently noted – say that flash memory is approaching a technical brick wall, the cofounder and former CEO and chairman of SanDisk sees things differently.…
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News Tom's Hardware US |
Intel Reveals More Details of Ivy Bridge Variants at ISSCC
Intel has revealed further details about its 22nm Ivy Bridge platform at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, which currently takes place in San Francisco.
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Researcher: 200,000 Windows PCs Vulnerable to PcAnywher...
